Meeting Santa

I know it's been eternity since I've updated this, but I just got these pictures today and had to share :)

Evelyn was beyond excited to meet Santa at our awesome ward Christmas party a couple of weeks ago. Cassidy...not so much. But, she didn't cry! I sneakily handed her to Santa while an elf handed her a candy cane then when she realized where she was sitting she very quickly slid off his lap, I love the picture of her running away from him, lol :)

Great Grandma and Grandpa Bennett's

We love going out to Cameron's grandparents house. We made a fun trip out there to get some pumpkins and the girls had a blast running around their yard and playing with grandma and grandpa. Evelyn especially thought the screen door was fun and kept telling grandpa to push the door closed and squish her.

 Cassidy wanted to taste the fresh zuccini...she didn't like it.

And of course we can't go to grandma and grandpa's without ridind the "tractor". Evelyn LOVED it as you can tell from her face in the picture.

This year they had two HUGE pumpkins.

And these are just a few of the beautiful flowers they have in their garden.

Country Mercantile

This year we went to the Country Mercantile TWICE. Once with all of Cameron's family and annother time with Evelyn's preschool group. It's always so much fun to go and climb the hay pyramids, do the little hay maze, see the animals, and or course, go on a tractor ride to pick our pumpkins.

We only got baby pumpkins this time because we had already gone out to Cameron's grandparents house and gotten big ones.

We had lots of fun going as a preschool. There are now 6 kids that we do a preschool co-op with (used to be 7 but one just moved to China!) All but two of them were able to come to the pumpkin patch. My camera died halfway through so I didn't get any pictures of the kids picking out their pumpkins but they had so much fun. I love the picture of all the kids trying to climb over/throught he pony's gate.

Halloween!

We had a super fun Halloween this year. Evelyn got to have a Halloween party at pre-school on Friday, Saturday we went to a Trunk-or-Treat at the church, and of course, Monday was the real deal and she got to go around house to house with some of her cousins.

Evelyn was a Cupcake Fairy (I did not make the costumes, but I did make the candy bags:) ) This is a picture of her heading out to do some trick-or-treating, she was soo excited to walk to all the doors.

 Evelyn's cousin Eva had her birthday part the day before Halloween so that's where this is from.

 Cassidy was a cupcake :)

This next sequence on pictures just makes me laugh and I had to share. I took the girls out in the backyard and wanted to get some cute pictures of them, I asked Evelyn to smile and this is what happened:

Family Pictures

I have been dying to get our family pictures done FOREVER! Ever since Evelyn was born I wanted family pictures done but for one reason or another it never happened but when Cassidy was born Cameron promised me when she was one we could get pictures done (since it would be nice out and she would be able to smile and sit up on her own). So a few weeks ago we got them done and we just got the pictures back and I'm in love with them :) I'm posting almost all of them mostly so my parents can see them so sorry there are so many. Now I have to decide which ones to print!!! (I'm thinking all of them, :) ) Our photographer was wonderful, her name is Diane and you can check you out at alandfoto.com, my girls (Evelyn mostly) had their share of meltdowns and she was so patient and the pictures speak for themselves but she was able to capture some good ones.

Cassidy is ONE!

 Our sweet sweet Cassidy turned one (a month ago) :) She is the most calm, sweet, loving little girl. We are so so so blessed to have her in our family!

 We celebrated by having family over for some cake. Cassidy loved playing with all her cousins and she actually enjoyed the cake. Evelyn wouldn't touch her cake so I was thinking Cassidy would be the same way but nope, she dug right in!

At Cassidy's one year check up she weighted 16 lbs 15 oz (6th percentile) and was 27 1/2 in (2nd percentile). Some of you may wonder if we feed this girl but the truth is she never. stops. eating. Seriously she is a vacuum. She was born little and I think she'll just stay little :) (I'm not worried and neither was the doctor).

She walks everywhere. She eats everything. She is pretty much always happy. She is a great sleeper. She gives kisses. She loves her grandpa. She LOVES strawberries. She has 6 teeth with one (that I can see) on it's way in. She loves being outside. She does not like to sit still. She loves to babble. She can't live without her blanket. She currently loves to open and close doors/cabinets and empty any drawer or cupboard she can't get into.

I've been thinking of all these things to blog about her but now my mind is blank. Basically she is a sweet heart and we LOVE LOVE LOVE her! :)

Lately

Not a whole lot has been going on here lately (hence the lack of posts). Really we've just been hanging out and going to parks. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure :)

By the way, Cassidy walks now, like ONLY walks now and she gets faster and faster every day. I cannot believe she will be ONE in just a couple of days!!! Where has the time gone????